Posts Categorized As: Correctional

Blog Post #1372 – Prisons Get Body Scanners

Toronto South Detention Centre

Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (June 2016)

Ontario’s Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services (MCSCS) announced on May 3, 2016, that advanced -technology full-body scanners will be installed in all of its prisons to reduce contraband and enhance the safety of both inmates and employees.

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Blog Post #1331 – Nurse Attacked in British Columbia Hospital

Forensic Psychiatric Hospital

Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (November 2015)

The B.C. Nurses’ Union (BCNU) Is calling for increased worker protection at a hospital in Coquitlam, British Columbia, after a male nurse was attacked while trying to de-escalate an argument between two patients on October 26, 2015.